The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.167

v1.c18.167

(33) *Gagaha grant*.—‘Found at Gagahā to the west of the Rapti river, about 21 miles south of Gorahkpur’² in the U.P.; 34 lines, incised on two plates. It records that with the consent of the donor of No. 4, the *Mahārājaputra* Rājyapāla-deva, while he was at camp at Guṁjhaḍa-*grāma*³ after bathing in the Triveṇī-*nadī*, granted certain estates in the Hathauṇḍa-*Pattalā* to the three Brahman *Ṭhakkuras* Devavarman, Bhūpati, and Śrīdhara, in (V) *Saṁvat* 1199 (A.D. 1143). The *tāmra-paṭṭaka* was written by the *Karaṇika Ṭhakkura* Vīvika (or Bībīka).⁴